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Hello Everyone! This is my first post, although I've been reading and watching videos on here for the past couple months. I recently got back into online poker playing freerolls on BetOnline, but decided it was time to actually make some real profits and made a deposit on Carbon Poker.

The goal of this blog is not only to receive feedback, etc. but also for myself to take an honest look at what I've invested thus far, and what steps I took to improve those early mistakes.

Originally deposited $100 and lost it over the course of the first month. I wasnt using Pokertracker and had no BRM. I did have basic hand charts was just way too aggressive and hadnt learned to read my opponents very well. I spent the next month studying on here, watching videos and actually playing a lot play chip poker.

I decided to invest another $100 in Carbon, this time using the bonus
After two days my BR is now $300+

I was runner up in 5.50bi 1.5kGTD MTT, which gave me a my biggest cash ever $308.75
Had good 1 hour sessions the past two days as well playing nl4 and nl10 -- cash table profit = $45.54

So, I've decided to enter the nightly MTT's and play 2 one hour cash table sessions / day going forward and will use this blog as my daily "punch in / punch out" so to say

BTW my name is Alex, I live in California, self employed atm
Looking forward to this.

A couple of suggestions:
Don't get too upset if you don't make "End week with profits in both MTT's and Tables",
A week is a short time, and you will have winning streaks and losing streaks even if you play perfectly.
The focus should always be on the hand in front of you, and playing that hand well.

As much as you can, avoid mixing limits. Player skill varies limit to limit, so mixing them may cause problems with assessing your opponents skill level. So if you're 4-tabling try for 4 tables of NL4 or 4 tables of NL 10.

On the other hand, I know several people who will add in a single table of a higher limit when moving up stakes, and it seems to work for them, so to each his own.

Thanks for the advice. After last nights session, I've decided to stick with just nl10, as I seem to be most comfortable there. And also, thanks for comment on not getting upset. I know being plus in both at this point seems like it would be quite a feat. MTT's are absolutely worth it but making it to final table requires at least some decent luck with the cards.

Fun week! Week +'s : 2 Final Tables (1st 6 max final table), placing 6th and 4th. The 4th place was a Knockout so it was quite fun. $85 + $8 in bounties, i think

Had enough good days on the cash tables to pay for buyins but last two sessions were not the greatest, but I know where I made mistakes after reviewing the sessions. Need to do a better job of protecting my hands from draws and tightening up with more than 2 limpers and when their is a raise in front of me. Just overplaying a bit.

Thought this hand was a fun hand from today. Looking back on it, im thinking I maybe could have shoved but didnt want to scare him off. Never seen some one think for so long before calling
who knows how tight really, but considering he didnt go all in with the full house, i think my read was right that he would've folded to any aggression.

mtt adventure has been entertaining. ive been playing the micro satellites a lot which has been a good when i do well in the second tournament. im finding it tough to win in both sat and main event. also seems like QQ and 99 love to trip against my aces this week. Feel like Ive been playing to tight when i get a bigger stack but really not sure. Looking back at the hand histories is tough as well simply because I will notice folding something like Kxs or Ax and see that no one had anything and it all just folds around. No big placings since last update, i dont think maybe 4th or something. Havnt been playin as much this week, but did very well at 10nl. I loosened up a bit after having played so many hands with some of the dudes/gals on the site and it payed off in most spots, overall +. Favorite hand i will post below. I would normally fold to 3b but when the fishy button player called I felt the price was right